Weather Links for FruitFromWashington

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You can't think about growing a crop without thinking about the weather. In this day and age of satellite imagery and climatological forecasting, we can do more than just stare up at the sky to see what's happening with the weather. Here are a few of our favorite weather links. If the weather report is your favorite part of the local newscast, you'll love to visit some of these great weather related websites. If all you want to do is a window check to see what's happening weatherwise in the Badger Pocket WebCam, that's okay, too!

WDOT Current Weather Station Summary - All Locations
(including East & West Bound Manastash Ridge)

WDOT Current Weather Station Summary - Ryegrass Summit Road Temperature and Traffic Cam
WDOT Current Weather Station Summary - Manastash Ridge Summit on I-82 West Bound Current Weather Conditions and Traffic Cam
WDOT Current Weather Station Summary - Elk Heights Road Temperature and Conditions

Washington Department of Transportation Road Report - Seattle to Ellensburg

Washington State Mountain Pass Report

Nexrad Mixed Composite Radar Map - Washington State

National Weather Service --
Area Forecast Discussion

Forecasts, Watches, Warnings & Most Recently Observed
Weather Conditions throughout United States

Weather Service Info Center

Western Region Interactive Map

NOAA 2-Hour Satellite Loop

NOAA Climate Prediction Center

Most Recent GOES-11 Infrared Imagery Loop of Northeastern Pacific off coast of Alaska, Washington and Oregon

Latest GOES West Satellite Images

National Weather Service Radar Image from Pendleton - South Central Washington and North Central Oregon -(Confused about how to read the color scales? FAQ here.)

Other Climate and Weather Sites of Interest:

NRCS Climate information retrieval

AccuWeather - 10 to 15 Day Forecast

Northwest Cable News Weather Summary

Oregon Climate Service - Oregon Climate and Weather Data

Wx USA Weather Hub

Ocean Surface Topography from Space

NOAA Ocean Prediction Center

University of Washington --
Department of Atmospheric Sciences - Weather and Climate

US Bureau of Reclamation --

Pacific Northwest Region Yakima Project and Pacific Northwest Hydromet System - Yakima Streamflows

USDA - Agricultural Statistics Service --
Washington Weekly Crop - Weather Reports

USGS -- Stream Flows --

USGS - Current Water Resources Conditions

USGS Yakima River Stream Flow at Umtanum

USGS Washington State Stream Flows

Wildfire Support

GeoMac (GeoSpatial Multi-Agency Coordination) Wildfire Mapping - Locate Current Wildfires Near You

Other Somewhat Out of the Ordinary Natural Phenomena

Historic Weather Event July 3, 1998 - Manastash Ridge and Yakima Canyon
More Here: "Debris Flows near the Yakima River, Kittitas County, Washington—Some Geomorphic Implications" by Martin R. Kaatz, Professor Emeritus Department of Geography and Land Studies Central Washington University; Ellensburg, WA 98926 (Washington Geology, VOL. 29, NO. 3/4 DECEMBER 2001)

Mount St. Helens Volcano Web Cam

Auroral Activity Map